por T. A. C.

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso

Spain 1881 - 1973

Middle-Class Upbringing

Father - painter, curator, professor

Picasso at age 7 receives formal artistic training from father

Preferred art to classwork

Sister at 7 dies when Picasso was 13

Family in Barcelona which Picasso sees as his true home

Takes month long entrance exam to School of Fine arts & completes in it in 1 week

Picasso is only 13

Father rents him a room close to home so that he can work alone & checks on him often during the day

At 16 father & uncle send him to Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid the foremost art school

Stops attending school yet spends time in the Prado museum

Goes to Paris - cold & poor, burns work to stay warm, publishes magazine with friend as the illustrator, begins to sign his work as Picasso

Married twice

4 children by 3 women

Lots of affairs

One woman hoped in vain that he would one day marry her too, 4 days after his death she hanged herself

WWII stays in France many others run

Cannot show his work, does not fit with Nazi ideals

Not suppose to work with Bronze, but it is smuggled into him

Time of painting Guernica

Lover Gilot leaves him

He is in his 70’s, she is a young art student

He takes it badly, deals with his age

Paints buffonish men with beautiful young girls

Dies during a dinner party

Periods of Picasso

Blue

Rose

African-Influenced

Analytical Cubism

Synthetic Cubism

Guernica

Depicts the Nazi-German bombing of Guernica, Spain by 28 bombers in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War

250 - 1,600 people dead more injured

Spanish government commissioned Picasso to paint a large mural for display at World’s Fair in Paris 1937

Within 15 days Picasso begins Guernica

It goes on a brief world tour

Became an anti-war symbol

Franco wanted it, Picasso would not allow it until Spain was returned to the people

Represents death, violence, brutality, suffering, helplessness, all in black&white to closely resemble a newspaper

1992 to Madrid’s Prado Museum

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